New variable selection methods for zero-inflated count data with applications to the substance abuse field

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2326-2340

  Buu, Anne ^a   Johnson, Norman J ^b   Li, Runze ^c   Tan, Xianming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LASSO; One step SCAD; Variable selection; Zero inflated Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79960247434     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4268     Document Type: Article

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